Burini, Federica

Burini, Federica, PhD in Geography at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Bergamo (Italy), where she teaches Human Geography and she works in the team of the Diathesis Cartographic Laboratory (www.unibg.it/geografia). Her interests concern the relation between territorial practices and cartography, focusing on how maps can show traditional values and local knowledge. The first territorial context of application has been rural Subsaharan Africa, and recently she is conducting her field research in Italian Alps.